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Is this crazy-looking home sauna just what our busy daddy reporter needs in his life?
- Casey Baseel
Oct 26, 2026 - Tweet
Ahiruneko’s single-guy sauna days are done, but this gadget promises to bring the steam right into his home.
New Tokyo facility promises to make you feel reborn, time in the womb and all [Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 12, 2026
![New Tokyo facility promises to make you feel reborn, time in the womb and all [Photos]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/10/0_bc4fda.jpg?w=640 "New Tokyo facility promises to make you feel reborn, time in the womb and all [Photos]")
Sauna Mother promises to provide the sense of calming security felt by a newborn baby.
Raw chicken dishes to be regulated by Japanese government
- Master Blaster
Jul 9, 2026
Government probably always just assumed common sense was enough.
- Japan
- (chicken • COK • food • food poisoning • Guillian-Barré • health • Japanese food • Kagoshima • raw meat • regulations • safety • tataki • wellness)
“Alcohol is the best medicine” removed from Japanese government website
- Master Blaster
Jun 24, 2026
A few beers a day keeps the doctor away, because you forgot your appointment.
- Japan
- (alcohol • COK • crazy • culture • funny • government • health • history • National Tax Agency • sake • weird • wellness)
Pachinko machines get new life and become big hit in Japanese assisted care facility
- Master Blaster
Jun 15, 2026
Better living through chrome-plated balls.
- Japan
- (assisted living facility • COK • elderly • Gunma • pachinko • physical disabilities • seniors • society • wellness)
With hot sweaty Shibuya summer on the way, free sodium tablets to be given out in downtown Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2026
Stay salty, everybody.
- Japan
- (COK • health • heat • heat exhaustion • heatstroke • Shibuya • sodium • wellness)
The story of our reporter P.K. Sanjun’s heart attack
- Casey Baseel
May 21, 2026
There are two phone numbers to remember in a situation like this, but one is much more important.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • health • heart attack • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • wellness)
Japan has a new cute and clever sunblock for cat lovers
- Casey Baseel
May 20, 2026
The adorable bottle is only part of what makes this a fun and convenient way to protect yourself from UV rays.
- Japan
- (animals • beauty • Biore • cats • clever • COK • cute • skincare • SNJO • sunblock • sunscreen • wellness)
Holy Fungus Mud Volleyball is Japan’s most filthily beautifying bacteria event of the summer!
- Casey Baseel
May 6, 2026
Getting dirty in Gifu comes with benefits for your skin and stomach.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • cosmetics • crazy • funny • Gifu • mud • skin treatments • sports • volleyball • weird • wellness)
Pokémon menstrual pads appear in Japan【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2026
Unexpected collaboration has an admirable purpose.
- Uncategorized
- (anime • cute • feminine hygiene • health • hygiene • manga • menstrual pads • Pokemon • sanitary pads • society • video games • wellness)
Japan’s Hiepita forehead cooling strips, so popular they changed the language, are disappearing
- Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2025
Sales of the cooling strips are not so hot, but why?
- Japan
- (cooling gel strips • cooling strips • fever • health • Hiepita • society • wellness)
Japanese group to hold fashion show of colostomy bags and other stoma equipment in Paris
- Master Blaster
Dec 12, 2025
Why hide it when you can accessorize it?
- Europe, Japan
- (art • colostomy bags • fashion • health • Japan Welfare & Medical Fashion Association • Kei Hirabayashi • kimono • ostomates • science • society • stoma • wellness • Yosuke Ishii)
U.S.A. now the fastest-growing market for Japan’s high-tech toilets, now selling quicker than ever
- Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2025
Toto’s Washlet is washing more and more backsides in the States, and there are likely two big reasons why the U.S. has started liking them for when it goes number two.
- Japan, USA
- (bidets • interior • Japanese toilets • society • Toilets • Toto • washlet • washlets • wellness)
Pokémon and hot spring bathhouse collaborate to bring Pokémon to your bath and sauna sessions
- Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2025
Bathhouse just north of Tokyo provides rubber Psyduckies, Ditto sauna stones, and other sights and scents to soothe tired Trainers.
- Japan
- (anime • baths • COK • cute • health • hot springs • manga • onsen • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Sleep • relaxation • sleep • video games • wellness)
If you go to the hospital in Japan, your doctor might be wearing a Pokémon coat and scrubs【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 13, 2025
Medical apparel company expands Pokémon line and addresses a complaint from fans about the original design.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • cute • doctors • fashion • health • hospitals • manga • Pikachum • Pokemon • video games • weird • wellness)
New for-otaku shampoo/body wash wants to change how and when card gamers bathe, preserve the hobby
- Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2025
“Treat your opponent with dignity!!”
- Japan
- (anime • campfire • card gamers • card games • collectible card games • crowdfunding • manga • Off-Kai • otaku • shampoo • weird • wellness)
Upright napping capsules on sale in Japan now
- Master Blaster
Jul 14, 2025
Take a load off and stand a spell.
- Japan
- (booths • fruit. weird • giraffenap • health • Itoki • napping • offices • sleeping • weird • wellness)
Is it OK to drink bottled water after the expiration date in Japan?
- Master Blaster
Jun 14, 2025
The answer may not surprise you but the reason will.
- Japan
- (bottled water • drinks • expiration date • expiry date • health • PET bottles • water • wellness)
Pokémon Sleep’s sleep-promoting eats step into the real world with Japanese nutritionist recipes
- Casey Baseel
May 10, 2025
Recipes let you eat like Snorlax so you can sleep like Snorlax.
- Japan
- (anime • cooking • curry • food • health • manga • nutrition • Pokemon • Pokémon Sleep • sleep • Snorlax • video games • wellness)
Japan starts selling smart salads in its new AI vending machine
- Elliot Hale
Apr 21, 2025
You could even get a bargain, if you get your timing right.
- Japan
- (AI • COK • food • granola • healthy food • salad • Salad Stand • technology • Tokyo • Tokyo Skytree • Tokyo Solamachi • vending machines • wellness)
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- Life-size Gundam head going on display in Osaka, hopefully will find permanent home
- Tokyo police arrest the Ame-zing Spider-Man
- Ichiran releases an at-home counter kit that turns your desk into a ramen restaurant
- Starbucks Japan releases new Bearista glass tumbler that changes character with every drink
- Move aside, Asahi Super Dry – Asahi Spice Beer is in town, and it’s hotter than you think
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Ichiran releases an at-home counter kit that turns your desk into a ramen restaurant
Starbucks Japan releases new Bearista glass tumbler that changes character with every drink
Tokyo police arrest the Ame-zing Spider-Man
Move aside, Asahi Super Dry – Asahi Spice Beer is in town, and it’s hotter than you think
Starbucks Japan reveals new Joyful Capsule gacha toy release date
Japanese drivers reminded to look out for drunk people passed out on the road this holiday season
Historical-themed illumination display returns to Osaka Castle this winter
“Sweet sake” with yuzu is coming to Japan’s wonderful world of hot canned drinks this winter
KFC now sells takikomi gohan rice boxes in Japan, if you know where to look for them [Taste test]
Life-size Gundam head going on display in Osaka, hopefully will find permanent home
Weekly
Tokyo cracks down on Airbnb-style rentals with new laws limiting operator days and more
Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups
America’s first-ever permanent One Piece store is now open [Photos]
Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
Tokyo neighborhood adds new “smart trash cans” to deal with increasing amounts of tourist litter
Two Tokyo neighborhoods to gather on bridge and shift their recognized border through tug-of-war
New Era celebrates three decades of Pokémon with new 30th anniversary cap line [Photos]
Pokémon card game’s expansion features art from Fist of the North Star creator
Japan’s new matcha vending machines serve freshly prepared matcha in five different strengths- Starbucks Japan reveals new Joyful Capsule gacha toy release date
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia
Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign- Tokyo cracks down on Airbnb-style rentals with new laws limiting operator days and more
Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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Japanese drivers reminded to look out for drunk people passed out on the road this holiday season
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“Sweet sake” with yuzu is coming to Japan’s wonderful world of hot canned drinks this winter
KFC now sells takikomi gohan rice boxes in Japan, if you know where to look for them [Taste test]
Life-size Gundam head going on display in Osaka, hopefully will find permanent home
Japan’s upcoming Romancecar train seeks to end intimacy with its super-wide seats
Is hamburger patty ramen a case of too many good things in one bowl? Let’s find out! [Taste test]
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Tokyo cracks down on Airbnb-style rentals with new laws limiting operator days and more
Japanese teacher who asked permission to jerk off at convenience store has been fired
Yakuza boss sues expressway owners for discrimination against criminals
KFC Japan starts selling soft-serve ice cream at select locations, and they’ve even put it in a biscuit
Japanese viewers of Godzilla Minus Zero angered by unusual number of restroom goers
America’s first-ever permanent One Piece store is now open [Photos]
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